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Book Synopsis Essays on Housing Policy by : J. B. Cullingworth
Download or read book Essays on Housing Policy written by J. B. Cullingworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, these essays provide a guide to the labyrinth of issues which together made up ‘housing policy’ in the late 20th Century. The focus is on the practical and political difficulties of devising measures which meet policy objectives – difficulties which are just as prevalent in the 21st Century. The search for ‘comprehensive strategies’ is shown to be a vain one: given the number of relevant issues and their complexity, only an incremental approach is practicable. Major issues are discussed in the context of an analysis of the institutional, historical and financial framework within which housing policy is formulated and operated.
Book Synopsis Essays on Housing Policy by : J. B. Cullingworth
Download or read book Essays on Housing Policy written by J. B. Cullingworth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, these essays provide a guide to the labyrinth of issues which together made up ‘housing policy’ in the late 20th Century. The focus is on the practical and political difficulties of devising measures which meet policy objectives – difficulties which are just as prevalent in the 21st Century. The search for ‘comprehensive strategies’ is shown to be a vain one: given the number of relevant issues and their complexity, only an incremental approach is practicable. Major issues are discussed in the context of an analysis of the institutional, historical and financial framework within which housing policy is formulated and operated.
Download or read book Under Pressure written by Hina Jamelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic, social, and political change. It varies widely in quality, typology, and audience and lies between the formal systems of urban infrastructure and the informal systems of daily life. Housing’s complexity offers unique and exciting opportunities to architects. Its entwinement with private equity and public agencies presents important challenges amplified by urbanization. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance.
Book Synopsis Three Essays on Housing Markets and Housing Policies by : Zhejin Zhao
Download or read book Three Essays on Housing Markets and Housing Policies written by Zhejin Zhao and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis contains three empirical essays on housing markets and housing policies. In the first essay, we investigate the effects of rent control on rents using historical panel data in Lyon over a 78-year period. We use multiple regressions with fixed effects as the main form of analysis. Our results show that the causal effect of rent control on rents in Lyon is significantly negative. In the second essay, I study how age influences housing demand based on household level data from China. The two-stage hedonic house price model used in this essay allows me to estimate the pure age effect on housing demand, after housing quality and other household's characteristics are controlled for. The results demonstrate that the willingness-to-pay for a constant-quality house will decrease slightly or keep constant when a representative household head becomes old, if the household head's educational attainment is controlled for. In contrast, it will drop rapidly if the household head's educational attainment is not controlled for. Therefore, this essay concludes that the total housing demand will not decrease with population aging, because the current middle- aged generation get educated more than the current old generation. Finally, in the third essay, in the framework of Rosen-Roback model, I analyze how housing costs affect the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled workers, explicitly the skill intensity ratio (SIR), across cities in China. To avoid endogeneity issues, I use both share of unavailable land and historical housing prices as instruments of current housing prices. The results show that average housing prices have significant positive effects on the SIR in 2010 when workers' mobility is relaxed, but insignificant effects on the SIR in 2000 when workers' mobility was tightly regulated.
Book Synopsis Essays on Low-Income Housing Policies by : Ellen Wen-Kai Liaw
Download or read book Essays on Low-Income Housing Policies written by Ellen Wen-Kai Liaw and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three chapters on topics related to low-income housing policies in the United States. Each chapter uses econometric methods to analyze data from administrative sources, aiming to establish causal relationships between variables of interest. In the first chapter, I provide evidence on how the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit policy impacts children's short- and medium-run human capital formation. I construct a novel dataset using the San Diego Unified School District administrative data and the California LIHTC database. Combining propensity score matching and difference-in-differences, I find an 0.28 percentage points decrease in the absenteeism rate, a 0.049 standard deviation increase in standardized English scores, and a 0.048 standard deviation increase in standardized math scores for students who moved into LIHTC during the study period. I also find positive effects on high school completion, college enrollment, and college completion. In the second chapter, I explore the impact of LIHTC on homelessness. Although an increase in affordable housing supply is observed, the effect on households at risk of homelessness is unclear. Combining point-in-time homeless counts and the LIHTC database from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, I construct a panel dataset that allows me to examine changes in homelessness on the Continuum of Care level from 2009 to 2019. With a first-differenced model, I find that one additional LIHTC unit is associated with a decrease of 1.1 homeless people. I also find that sheltered families and children are the primary beneficiaries of new LIHTC units. In the third chapter, I estimate the impact of the right-to-counsel policy in housing courts. New York City introduced a novel policy in 2018 to provide the right to counsel in housing courts for income-eligible tenants facing eviction. This policy allows low-income households better access to the formal justice system. Taking advantage of the staggered roll-out schedule on the zip code level, I estimate the causal effect of the policy change using a difference-in-differences approach. Despite no statistically significant impact on eviction filings, I find a 16.9 percent decrease in quarterly evictions. The results demonstrate positive impacts of tenant representation on evictions in the short run.
Book Synopsis Essays in Low-income Housing Policies, Mobility, and Sorting by : Judy A. Geyer
Download or read book Essays in Low-income Housing Policies, Mobility, and Sorting written by Judy A. Geyer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Housing, Markets and Policy by : Peter Malpass
Download or read book Housing, Markets and Policy written by Peter Malpass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of specially commissioned essays by distinguished housing scholars addresses the big issues in contemporary debates about housing and housing policy in the UK. Setting out a distinctive and coherent analysis, it steers a course between those accounts that rely on economic theory and analysis and those that emphasize policy. It is informed by the idea that the 1970s was a pivotal decade in the second half of the twentieth century, and that since that time there has been a profound transformation in the housing system and housing policy in the UK. The contributors describe, analyze and explain aspects of that transformation, as a basis for understanding the present and thinking about the future. The analysis of housing is set within an understanding of the wider changes affecting the economy and the welfare state since the crises of the mid 1970s.
Book Synopsis Essays on Housing Policy and Community Development by : Shawn R. Moulton
Download or read book Essays on Housing Policy and Community Development written by Shawn R. Moulton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Housing Markets and the Economy by : Karl E. Case
Download or read book Housing Markets and the Economy written by Karl E. Case and published by Lincoln Inst of Land Policy. This book was released on 2009 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the work of Karl "Chip" Case, who is renowned for his scientific contributions to the economics of housing and public policy, this is a must read during a time of restructuring our nation's system of housing finance.
Book Synopsis Homelessness Is a Housing Problem by : Gregg Colburn
Download or read book Homelessness Is a Housing Problem written by Gregg Colburn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseline -- Evidence -- Individual -- Landscape -- Market -- Typology -- Response.
Book Synopsis The Affordable Housing Reader by : Elizabeth J. Mueller
Download or read book The Affordable Housing Reader written by Elizabeth J. Mueller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground. The Reader – aimed at professors, students, and researchers – provides an overview of the literature on housing policy and planning that is both comprehensive and interdisciplinary. It is particularly suited for graduate and undergraduate courses on housing policy offered to students of public policy and city planning. The Reader is structured around the key debates in affordable housing, ranging from the conflicting motivations for housing policy, through analysis of the causes of and solutions to housing problems, to concerns about gentrification and housing and race. Each debate is contextualized in an introductory essay by the editors, and illustrated with a range of texts and articles. Elizabeth Mueller and Rosie Tighe have brought together for the first time into a single volume the best and most influential writings on housing and its importance for planners and policy-makers.
Book Synopsis Essays in the Economics of Public Housing Policy by : Han Bum Lee
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Public Housing Policy written by Han Bum Lee and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning by : Katrin B. Anacker
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning written by Katrin B. Anacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies. This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.
Book Synopsis In Defense of Housing by : Peter Marcuse
Download or read book In Defense of Housing written by Peter Marcuse and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.
Book Synopsis People, Plans, and Policies by : Herbert J. Gans
Download or read book People, Plans, and Policies written by Herbert J. Gans and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism, and until these concerns are addressed by bringing about racial equality, creating jobs, and instituting other reforms, the generally low quality of urban life will persist. Gans argues that the individual must work to alter society. He believes that not only must parents have jobs to improve their children's school performance, but that the country needs a modernized "New Deal," a more labor-intensive economy, and a thirty-two hour work week to achieve full employment. Other controversial ideas presented in this book include Gans's opposition to the whole notion of an underclass, which he feels is the latest way for the nonpoor to unjustly label the poor as undeserving. He also believes that poverty continues to plague society because it is often useful to the nonpoor. He is critical of architecture that aims above all to be aesthetic or to make philosophical statements, is doubtful that planners can or should try to reform our social or personal lives, and thinks we should concentrate on achieving individual public policies until we learn how to properly plan as a society.
Book Synopsis Three Essays on Housing Policy and Inequality by : Thomas PlaHovinsak
Download or read book Three Essays on Housing Policy and Inequality written by Thomas PlaHovinsak and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter examines issues of vertical inequity in property assessment across Massachusetts. Several previous studies claim to identify bias in the assessment of housing value for the purposes of property taxes. This chapter highlights some problems with the methodologies used in many of those studies and provides an alternative framework for finding minimum values for assessor error and bias. Using data from the Massachusetts' Office of Geographic Information, we build off previous studies in three ways. First, we briefly explain why the errors-in-variables problem can cause biased estimates of vertical inequity in property assessment and how previous solutions to this problem are based on misleading assumptions. Second, we show that a method based on hedonic price estimates using property-level observables can provide a lower bound for the extent of assessor error and bias for Massachusetts towns. Third, we explore if there are differences in vertical inequity across towns in Massachusetts. Our results show that more than 23.3 percent of the variance in the difference between assessment and sale price across Massachusetts is due to assessor error, and that several property-level and town-level features can explain assessor bias. Furthermore, high-value properties across the state are the ones most likely to be under-assessed regardless of whether or not they are located in a high-income town. The second chapter studies the aftermath of the Mount Laurel decisions and the role of the Council on Affordable Housing. In the wake of the Mount Laurel decision in the mid-1980s, the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) was created by the NJ state legislature to implement new affordable housing requirements across the state. If NJ municipalities volunteered to fall under COAH's jurisdiction, they would agree to build their affordable housing obligation. In return, the municipality would receive legal protection from exclusionary zoning lawsuits and have the ability to engage in a Regional Contribution Agreement (RCA), a process in which a municipality could pay another municipality to build up to 50 percent of the paying municipality's affordable housing obligation. Using data from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, reports generated by COAH, as well as decennial census data, I investigate three questions of interest: 1) What types of municipalities volunteered to come under COAH's jurisdiction? 2) Is there a pattern to compliance rates when examining the construction of new affordable housing? 3) What types of municipalities engaged in an RCA, and is there a pattern of "rich" municipalities sending their affordable housing allotment to "poor" municipalities? I find that those municipalities with the greatest perceived threat of potential litigation were the ones most likely to join COAH as well as fulfill at least some of their affordable housing obligation, although compliance rates were generally low throughout the time period examined. I also find a clear pattern of higher-income municipalities sending affordable housing units to lower-income municipalities, preventing economic integration within high-income municipalities and undermining the original intent of the Mount Laurel decision. The third chapter examines the results of a pilot study with Habitat for Humanity. Homeownership has remained an important aspect of U.S. policy and popular culture for decades. While some studies have attempted to prove the existence of benefits associated with homeownership, often called the "homeownership effect," few studies have been able to separate benefits stemming from housing itself as opposed to neighborhood effects, and few studies have devoted their attention to homeownership-focused programs. In a pilot study using survey data collected from applicants to the U.S.-based housing charity Habitat for Humanity, I employ a quasi-experimental design to compare perceived changes in the lives of those who were selected into the Habitat for Humanity housing program to those who applied for housing but were denied. In addition, since the recipients of Habitat houses remain in the same general area as their original residence, I am able to focus on the three joint benefits of the Habitat for Humanity program: becoming a homeowner, upgrading the quality of one's residence, and receiving a positive wealth transfer. I find that, in comparison to denied applicants, Habitat homeowners report more positive changes in their overall life, including their economic situation, their children's education, and their level of community engagement. I also find that the participating Habitat for Humanity affiliates were more likely to select those who were married and those with a high school level into the housing program. Based on these findings, I believe that more research into homeownership-focused programs is warranted.
Download or read book The Future of Student Housing written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
